Williamson, Peter - Woodby, John

WILLIAMSON, Peter bookseller and printer
Edinburgh
American Coffee House, Paterson's Court, Lawnmarket 1760bookseller Parliament House 1761-62
His Coffee-Room within the Parliament-House 1768printer and bookseller Dunbar's Close Lawnmarket
1773
Swan's Close a little above the Guard North side 1774printer Front of the Royal Exchange 1775-76
sign of the Lanthorn East end of the Luckenbooths 1780
General Post office Luckenbooths 1782
Penny Post Office Luckenbooths 1783-92vintner House, first entry to Gavanlock's land, West end
of the Luckenbooth's North side 1793-97
Keeper of the America Coffee House married Jean daughter to
deceased John Colin 7 September 1760. Publisher of the
Edinburgh Directory. Caledonian Mercury 11 June
1760; 1 June 1761; French and Indian cruelty exemplified in the
life... of Peter Williamson... written by himself. Glasgow,
1758 etc.; The trial of divorce, at the instance of Peter
Williamson... against Jean Wilson. Edinburgh, 1789; Died 19
January 1799.Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind; Kay; DNB; Constable i 538-539;
William J. Hay 'Peter Williamson's Broadside showing in
topographical sequence the Streets, Wynds, Squares and Closes of
Edinburgh in 1783' The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club xxii
(1938)

WILLISON, David printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1769-72
Craig's Close, High Street 1773-1819
David Willison Esq printer Craig's Close 1820
John Hutchison same address (printing-office late D. Willison's)
1821-22
Becket, Cadell and Strahan booksellers in London sued him in 1775
for printing an edition of Sterne's Works. Burgess in
right of his wife Jean daughter of the deceased John Bruce printer,
8 March 1781 and Guild Brother 17 August 1786. His daughter Mary
married Archibald Constable 16 January 1795. Apprentices: John
Small 21 September 1786; John Moir, Burgess 30 April 1801.NLS Impr Ind; Edin Dir; EdinBurg; McDougall. Smugglers;
Constable

WILLOX, John engraver on wood Edinburgh
11 Causewayside 1834-44
This is the house address of John Willox bookseller and librarian
Edin Dir 1830. Given at same address Edin Dir
1844 but without an occupation.Edin Dir

WILSON and CHIRNSIDE, [Thomas] printers
Edinburgh
New Bank Close 1776
Robert Wilson junior and Company same address 1777
Mundell and Wilson Back Stairs 1778
Wilson and Mundell New Bank Close 1780Edin Dir

WILSON, A bookseller Glasgow
Glasgow 1780
Mark Akenside's The pleasures of imagination was printed
for him in 1780. This is possibly the Alexander Wilson stationer
and bookseller lodgings third flat Todd's land, High Street who
appears in Jones's Glasgow Directory 1789.NLS Impr Ind

WILSON, Alexander & Sons typefounders
Glasgow
Alexander Wilson and John Baine St Andrews 1742
Camlachie 1743-9
Alexander Wilson alone 1749
Doctor Alexander Wilson & Sons College 1772
High Street 1783
Andrew Wilson, College 1787-89
A. Wilson, College Steps 1809-20
College, High Street 1820-25
AlexanderWilson & Sons, Blackfriars Steps 1828
Alexander Wilson and John Baine established a typefoundry in St
Andrews in 1742 which was moved to Camlachie, near Glasgow in 1744.
They separated in 1749. Baine was subsequently in business in
London, but later set up in Edinburgh, before emigrating to
America. Burgess and Guild Brother gratis, on account of his great
ingenuity in typefounding by which printing has been advanced in
this city within these few years to a great degree of perfection 1
May 1758. Alexander Willson merchant Burgess and Guild Brother as
son to Alexander Willson typemaker 16 February 1775. After Wilson's
death in 1786 he was succeeded by his sons without a change in the
style of the firm. A branch was started in Edinburgh in 1832. The
Glasgow foundry moved to London and Two Waters in Hertfordshire in
1834. It went bankrupt in 1845 and was sold at auction in 1850. The
National Library of Scotland has Alexander Wilson & Sons
specimen of Newspaper Founts. Glasgow, 1822 and a
Specimen of modern printing types. Glasgow, 1833.Glas Dir; Pigot 1820; 1825; Mosley; Reed; Duncan Glen.
Printing Type Designs: a new History from Gutenberg to
2000. Kirkcaldy, 2001.

WILSON, Andro bookseller Edinburgh
Near the Ladies steps 1641
At the Plain Stones over against the Stone Shop at the Signe of
the Great Book 1649
At the Sign of the Bible 1649
Burgess 30 July 1634; John Frank wright souertie. A Confession of
Faith and Catechism were printed with the imprint Amsterdam Luice
Elzever for Andro Wilson, 1649, though this may be a mystification
as the book may have been printed by Lithgow. He died in 1654, will
registered 29 December 1654, his wife, Elizabeth Mortimur, and
children, Elizabeth, Jeane, and Issoble surviving him. Inventory
Bann.Misc.ii,277. Jane daughter of the deceased Andrew
Wilson stationer buried in Greyfriars Churchyard 29 March 1659.
Apprentices: Alexander Sword 20 February 1639; Alexander Falconer
29 March 1643, Burgess 13 May 1668; John Fyfe 13 January 1647;
James Anderson 5 June 1650, Burgess 16 August 1665.EdinBurg; EdinTest; Aldis 1904; GreyBuri; EdinPren

WILSON, Andrew engraver Edinburgh
13 Hill Place 1822-32draper of Wardlaw and Wright same address 1833-34tailor of Wilson and Saunders same address 1835-40clothier same address 1841-43
late clothier same address 1844clothier same address 1845no trade same address 1846
Pupil of Alexander Nasmyth. Died Edinburgh 27 November 1848.
Perhaps the engraver and the draper were father and son, and the
father was the Edinburgh engraver who died 5 May 1832. Wardlaw and
Wright does not appear in the main sequence Edin Dir 1833
or 1834. It may be an error for Wardlaw and Wilson. Walker and
Whyte is in the trade index Edin Dir as engravers. Andrew
Wilson is described as a draper in the street index, and Wardlaw
and Wilson were drapers.Edin Dir; Pigot 1825; Johnst3

WILSON, Herbert bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1714-55
Burgess by right of father Thomas Wilson, stabler 1 December 1714.
Married Christian Douglass, daughter of the late Colonel James
Douglass 1 July 1716. Will registered 18 January 1755. Apprentices:
Robert Graham, son of James Graham of Douglass, 29 December 1714
[1715 Maxted]; Archibald Douglas 15 November 1717.EdinPren; Maxted; EdinBurg; EdinMarr; EdinTest

WILSON, John paper maker Dawsholm
Dawsholm 1811
Burgess and Guild Brother was married to Janet daughter to John
Reid tailor in Rutherglen 12 June 1811. Thomas Park tailor Burgess
and Guild Brother was married to Elisabeth daughter to John Wilson
paper maker Dawsholm 20 June 1811.GlasBurg

WILSON, John music seller Dundee
Kay's Close Nethergate 1852Slater 1852

WILSON, John apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1639
Son to Robert Wilson, cordiner in Edinburgh, apprenticed with
Robert Bryson bookseller 25 December 1639.EdinPren

WILSON, John apprentice bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1719
John Wilson, son of John Wilson of Leith, apprenticed to James
M'Euen bookseller of Edinburgh 1719Maxted

WILSON, John bookseller Edinburgh
in the Exchange 1767-71
at the sign of the Royal Oak front of the Exchange 1773-77
foot of Presidents Stairs 1778-86
Entry to the Exchange 1788-90
27 Parliament Square 1793-96
Daughter Ann married Charles Heriot bookseller 25 September 1768.
Daughter Jean married Peter Williamson vintner 10 November 1771.
Daughter Mary married John Macduff bookseller 29 September 1787. At
least towards the end he sold second-hand books.Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind; EdinMarr

WILSON, John bookseller, merchant and bookbinder
Glasgow
Glasgow 1634-43
D. Dickson's True Christian Love was printed for him in
Edinburgh by Wreittoun in 1634, and N. Campbell's A treatise
upon death, also in Edinburgh by R. Young in 1635.
Apprentice: John Moresoun bookbinder Burgess as serving apprentice
with John Wilson merchant and bookbinder 5 October 1643.Aldis 1904

WILSON, John bookbinder, stationer and bookseller
Glasgow
Glasgow 1692-1719
John Wilson stationer Burgess and Guild Brother in right of his
father 29 September 1692. His name occurs in A perfect list of
the subscribers to the Darien Company. Edinburgh, 1696. Sold
copies of Peter Rae's The history of the late rebellion,
1718. Apprentice: James M'Coull Servant to John Wilson bookbinder
Burgess and Guild Brother gratis 10 May 1717. The will of John
Wilson merchant in Glasgow, sometime in Gatesyde of Barjarg was
registered 24 March 1719. Mr William Wilson minister of the Gospel
at Coldstream Burgess and Guild Brother as eldest son to deceased
John Wilson stationer 5 March 1742. Bushnell gives his dates as
1696-1726.GlasBurg; Aldis 1904; NLS Impr Ind; GlasTest; Bush.3

WILSON, John printer and bookseller Kilmarnock and
Ayrprinter and bookseller Kilmarnock 1782-90printer 23 High Street Ayr 1790
Ayr 1791
John and Peter Wilson Ayr 1791-1810
John Wilson and the Reverend Mr Hamilton Paul Ayr 1810-16
John Wilson, McCormick and Adam Carnie Ayr 1816-21
John Wilson was a native of Kilmarnock. 'His shop was in one of
the old buildings which stood where Portland Street now opens into
the Cross; and his printing-office was in the attic storey of that
land on the left of the Star Inn Close, as entered from Waterloo
Street. Mr Wilson latterly moved to Ayr; but previously, in
conjunction with a brother [Peter] established a stationery
business in that town, he first projected and commenced, in 1803,
The Ayr Advertiser. When in Kilmarnock, Mr Wilson was for
some time a magistrate.' Peter Wilson died at Gibraltar 3 May 1810,
John Wilson died 6 May 1821 aged 62.NLS Impr Ind; Frances M. Thomson.'An Ayrshire printer,
publisher and bookseller.' Bibliotheck v pp.41-61 (1967).
Carreen S. Gardner. Printing in Ayr and Kilmarnock.
Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1976 (Ayrshire
Collections. vol.12 no.1); Archibald M'Kay. The History of
Kilmarnock. 3rd ed. Kilmarnock, 1864.

WILSON, John Jeffers printer and newspaper printer
Kircaldy, Cupar in Fife, Dundee, Perth and Kirkcaldy
The Fifeshire Journal Cameron's Buildings, Straiton's Close Cupar
January-June 1836
Dundee Chronicle office Dundee 1836
The Constitutional Kirkside Perth 1837
Kirkcaldy Advertiser office foot of Kirk Wynd June 1838-39
Fifeshire Advertiser office Kirkcaldy August 1838-20th
Century
Son of John Jeffers, a non-commissioned officer in the 2nd
Battalion of The Rifle Brigade, and Ann Harrison. Born at Saltwood
in Kent in January 1808. He was with his mother in the baggage
train at the battle of Waterloo. Shortly afterwards his father
died, and his mother settled in Leith, and married a Sergeant
Wilson. John Jeffers took his stepfather's surname. In 1822-23 he
was apprenticed as a printer to Tait's Magazine, under
John and Christina Johnston. He was printing manager of The
Fifeshire Journal from January to June 1836, and was
responsible for the transfer of the paper to Cupar, but 'Found too
many masters there' and left in June of the same year. He
subsequently was manager of The Dundee Chronicle, and
The Perth Constitutional, before returning to Kirkcaldy
and starting The Kirkcaldy Advertiser, later The
Fifeshire Advertiser. Wilson died on 12 March 1866, and having
no children his two nephews, William Lindsay White and Frances
Hislop inherited the Advertiser.Campbell Journal; Pigot 1837; Campbell Advertiser; Slater
1852

WILSON, John bookseller Paisley
60 Well Meadow-street 1820Pigot 1820

WILSON, John bookseller, stationer, bookbinder, circulating
library, printer & lithographer Rothesay
20 Victoria Street 1848-51
Victoria Street 1852-56
Wrote and published Wilson's Guide to Rothesay, and the Island
of Bute. Rothesay, 1848. It contains a six-page advertisement
for the firm at the back. The lithographs are published but not
printed by Wilson. A new edition was published in 1856, in the
advertisements of both editions he claims to be a
lithographer.Slater 1852

WILSON, Patrick bookseller Brechin
Brechin 1793-1801
Sold copies of A description of the County of Angus.
Dundee, 1793. He was a partner in the firm of Smith and Wilson
linen manufacturers in Brechin. The firm issued a copper halfpenny
token in 1801. Mr Wilson called in the 'Brechin Bawbees' and they
are consequently very rare.NLS Impr Ind; D.H. Edwards. Historical Guide to Brechin.
4th Ed. Brechin, [1903?] 267-68.

WILSON, Richard printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1768
Robert Wilson Hume's Close, Cowgate 1775
'senior' same address 1776
Robert and Richard Wilson same address 1780
Robert Wilson same address 1782-1800
Married Martha daughter to George Richardson tenant in Gladsmuir
10 April 1768. Daughter Margarate married William Anderson
shoemaker in the Canongate in Canongate Kirk 29 May 1794.EdinMarr; CanonMarr

WILSON, William bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1636-45
Son of late David Wilson, apprenticed with William Knox bookseller
9 November 1636. Married Janet Cunninghame 7 November 1644. Burgess
and Guild Brother as apprentice to William Knox bookseller 30 April
1645.EdinPren; EdinMarr; EdinBurg

WILSON, William printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1797
Son of late John Wilson, wright in Portsburgh, apprenticed to
James Donaldson printer for 7 years 27 April 1797. Burgess as
apprentice to James Donaldson printer 27 April 1797.EdinPren; EdinBurg

WILSON, William bookseller Saltcoats
Saltcoats 1790-1820
Sold copies of two sermons. Glasgow Courier 7 May 1795
and 7 April 1798 and subscribed to John Owen's Meditations
1790.NLS Impr Ind; Pigot 1820

WINCHESTER [WINSCHESTER], James bookbinder
Glasgow
Glasgow 1628 - before 1659
Burgess and Freeman as married to Bessie daughter to deceased
William Leis mealman Burgess 10 January 1628. Apprentice: George
Browne bookbinder Burgess as serving apprentice with deceased James
Winchester bookbinder, Burgess 24 February 1659. James Winchester
Burgess as eldest son to deceased James Winchester bookbinder 11
February 1664.GlasBurg

WINGATE, Alexander printer and newspaper office
Alloa
Alloa after 1836-59?bookseller Mill Street 1852
In January 1844 he started a monthly jounal called The
Clackmannanshire Advertiser. He was succeeded by James
M'Isaac, S.N. Morrison in 1859 who changed the title to the
Alloa Journal.Slater 1852; John Lothian. Alloa and its
environs. 3rd ed. 1871

WINTOUR, Peter paper maker Edrom
Allanbank Mill 1825
Misprinted Rintour in Thomson's printing of the Mill List
but Wintour in the index and text. Mill No 35 in the hands of
William Martin in 1832.Thomson

WIRLING, John printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1791
Married Mary daughter of William Gowan grocer 17 December
1791.EdinMarr

WISHER, David lithographer Glasgow
42 King Street 1850-51Schenck

WITHERSPOON [WOTHERSPOON; WEDDERSPOON; WHETHERSPOON], John
printer Edinburgh
Gilbert Martin and John Wotherspoon Advocate's Close,
Luckenbooths, 1761-74
John Wotherspoon Edinburgh 1776
Son of John Wotherspoon baxter in Canongate, apprenticed to Thomas
Lumsden printer 5 June 1754 [30 April 1754 Maxted];
Burgess as apprentice to Thomas Lumisden printer 26 August 1761;
Married Janet daughter to the deceased William Mitchell accomptant
in the Bank in Canongate Kirk 5 September 1765 [1 September 1765
according to the Edinburgh Marriage Register]. Guild Brother in
right of wife Janet daughter of William Mitchell merchant 30 March
1774. He printed David Herd's Ancient and modern Scottish
songs. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1776. Died 3 May 1776, buried in
Greyfriars Churchyard, will registered 24 May 1776. Apprentice:
Robert Auchinleck, Burgess 28 September 1770, Apprentice same
day.EdinPren; Maxted; EdinBurg; CanonMarr; EdinMarr; NLS Impr Ind;
EdinTest

WOOD, John bookbinder Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1618-28
Burgess by act of Council of 8 May; John Straittoune cordiner
souerty 13 May 1618. There is an account for stationery and
repairing the clasps of Heriot's great Register Book from John Wood
to the 'Clerk's Chalmir' October 1633 in The National Library of
Scotland. Apprentice: James Sinclair 6 August 1628, Burgess 20
March 1639.EdinBurg; EdinPren; NLS CH.13

WOOD, John bookseller Edinburgh
On the South Side of the High Street a little above the Crosse
1629-33
Four books were printed for him between 1629 and 1633.Aldis 1904; STC

WOOD, John bookseller and printer Edinburgh
at the Cross 1751
Edinburgh 1753-55
head of Forrester's Wynd 1759
John Wood and Company printer Edinburgh 1759-60
J. Wood 1761
Milton's Head within the Exchange 1762-65
Luckenbooths 1765-80
John Wood bookbinder Burgess of before, Guild Brother as
apprentice to Lauchlane Hunter 24 April 1754. Subscription list to
Thomas Boston's Sermons 1756. "To be sold, by order of the
trustees for the creditors of John Wood... his entire stock in
trade... at the shop... within the New Exchange..." Caledonian
Mercury 2 January 1762; "By the trustees for the creditors of
the deceased John Wood, bookseller in Edinburgh, there will be
peremptorily sold off, his whole stock of books, in sheets... The
place of sale to be in said John Wood's shop in the New
Exchange..." Caledonian Mercury 12 May 1762. book auction
within the shop 8 January 1763; advertised for information about
book thieves Caledonian Mercury 12 October 1763 "In the
Exchange. A catalogue of a New Circulating Library of
above 1400 volumes, is now ready." Caledonian Mercury 9
January 1764. John Wood is described as a bookbinder in the imprint
of James Craig's Spiritual life. Edinburgh, 1751. In 1767,
John Wood was a witness in the Case of Alexander Donaldson v John
Reid, where he is described as aged 40 and married. He was sued in
1773 by William Johnston of London for selling pirated editions of
Henry Brooke's Fool of Quality and Smollett's Humphry
Clinker. James Dodsley sued him for selling a pirated edition
of Chesterfield's Letters in 1774. The National Library of
Scotland possesses The decision of the Court of Session, upon
the question of literary property; in the cause of J. Hinton...
against Alexander Donaldson and John Wood booksellers in Edinburgh
... published by James Boswell. Edinburgh, 1774. Becket,
Cadell and Strahan booksellers in London sued him in 1775 for
selling a pirated edition of Sterne's Works. Member of the
Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 7 February 1776. Apprentice; John
Walker 25 February 1790, Burgess same day.NLS Impr Ind; EdinBurg; EdinPren; Edin Dir; Petition of
Alexander Donaldson February 28 1769; John Morris. 'Wheel
binding perhaps by John Wood, Edinburgh 1761'. The
Bibliotheck xviii, 1992-3.; McDougall. Smugglers;The decision of the Court of Session, upon the question of
literary property; in the cause John Hinton of London, bookseller,
pursuer, against Alexander Donaldson and John Wood booksellers in
Edinburgh ... published by James Boswell. Edinburgh, 1774
; Sher. Edinburgh Booksellers

WOOD, John book publisher and binder Glasgow
10 New Wynd 1815
6 York Street 1818Glas Dir

WOOD, John bookbinder Haddington
North-east Port 1825Pigot 1825

WOOD, John bookseller and printer Haddington
Back Street 1837Pigot 1837